Rampant Elephant

The forced-block effect has a long lineage in white-green combat design: Lure, the Aura that drags every creature into blocking one threat at once, is the maximalist version. This pares that idea down to a single target and makes it repeatable, gating the effect behind a green activation cost welded to an otherwise white body. The split is the point. The creature is white, but the in its activated ability pushes its color identity into green-white, so the lever that makes it worth running only fires when green mana is also on the table. That is the allied-pair, gold-card philosophy of its era rendered in miniature: the design distributes a creature and its combat lever across two colors rather than printing a single multicolor card. The activation shapes combat directly. Fire it before the declare-blockers step and you dictate which creature must block this one, pulling a would-be attacker back to chump duty or locking a defender onto your 2/2 while the rest of your team swings unimpeded. The body has no evasion or keyword teeth of its own, so the value is not in the trade this creature wins on contact but in the recurring "this must block me" instruction itself: a green-white deck can steer its opponent's combat math turn after turn instead of spending a fresh trick each time. The forced block only matters when the block hurts, but the structural idea of a combat-shaping ability bolted to a permanent, gated by an off-color cost, is more deliberate than the flat statline suggests.